Fly-screen.



PATENTED, APR; 1, 1903. s. 0. DANIEL... FLY SCREEN.

APPLICATION FILED NOV 6, 1902.

R0 MODEL WITNESS N VE-NTOH A TTOHNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL COOPER DANIEL, OF GAS CITY, INDIANA.

FLY-SCREEN.

$PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 726,145, dated April 21, 1903. Application filed November 6, 1902. Serial No. 130,259. LNo model.)

To aZZ whom it ma concern:-

of Indiana, have invented a new-and useful Improvement in Fly-Screens, of which the fol-' dition toserving the usual purposeof excluding flies and other insects also serve as a means of allowing egress of flies and other insects that may be in a rooni.

My invention consists in certainnovel features of construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and pointed out'in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure l is a front elevation of the screen-bodybefore it and the tapered tubes are bent into operative position, the final position of the tubes being indicated by dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a vertical section on line a: a; of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the completed screen. Fig. tis a section on line y y of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a vertical section on line z z of Fig. 3.

In carrying out my invention I usea frame A of any suitable construction, to which is secured in any suitable manner the screen 13. Said screen is composed of wire gauze or netting woven in the usual way, with thisimpor: taut exception: Flattened cone-shaped or taerin tubes or ockets C are arran ed in. P e P V one or more transverse rows across the width ofthe screen, projecting rearwardly croutwardly from the screen-bodyat any suitable point in its height, though preferably this row or rows will be placed as near the top of the screen as possible, as the natural travel of flies is nearly always upward. The outer or smaller end of said tubes 0 is open, as at C, and is of such restricted size as to only permit the egress of a fly, but will prevent or offer a great obstacle to the entrance of the fly from the outside. To complete the screen, the body portion is folded upon itself along a line about the center of the inner or larger opening 0 of the pockets 0, as indicatedby the dotted line 1 2 in Fig. 1. By makingthe folds at this point I produce a transverse reeutrant groove or channel D, as indicated in the sectionalviewFigqt, and at the same Be it known that LSAMUEL OooPER DANInL,; of Gas City, in the county of Grant and'Stat-e.

time the tubes or pockets C are bent upwardly and forwardly toward the outer face of the screen-body,- but not against it, there by forming and giving the tubes 0 an upwardlyobliquely projecting direction entirely without or' beyond the plane of the screen-body. The purpose of this construction is to overcome the possible contingency of a fly crawl-;

ing along the outer surface of the screen and entering the restricted opening at the outer end of said tubes, as might be done if said tubes lay flat against the outer face.

"lhe'inner or larger ends of the tubes 0 are placed very close together and lying within the transverse groove D lie directly in the strong. 'Again, byprojecting the outer ends ofthe tapering tubes upwardly and outwardly away from the outer surfacefof the screen should any flies crawl downwardly or across the outer surface of the screen, which is extremely unlikely-,"they will not reach the restricted outer open ends of the tubes and pass through the screen from the outside to the inside." i

It-will be seen that I provide a screen which will efiectually excludeflies from a room and one whichforrns means of egress of flies that jmay have gathered in the room.

By my method 'or process of folding the screen and bending the tapering exit-tubes I do away with alljoints, patching, or extraneous means of fastening the parts together.

' The completed screen may be fastened to the face of the frame A, or its edges may be inserted and held in saw-kerfs in the inner edges of the frame, or the s'creenmay be fastened between two-part frames.

The tapering tubes may be of any suitable length, and their outer ends when bent upward will set away from the'body of the screw a short distance-say about one-fourth or three-eighths of an inch. It is also obvious that the screen and frame may be made any size or shape to fit any window or door.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. Afly-screen comprisinga frame, a wovenwire screen-body portion securedthereto and having a transverse row of elongated openings adjacent to each other, an integral fiattened tapering woven-wire tube extending outwardly from each opening, said tubes having a restricted opening at their outer ends, said body portion being folded downwardly on the median line of the elongated openings to form a transverse guide groove or channel leading to the tapered tubes, said tubes being bent upwardly and inwardly toward the outer face of the body portion but not in contact therewith.

2. The process of forming fiy-screens which consists first, in weaving a screen-body with a transverse row of elongated openings, secondly in weaving integral elongated tapering tubes open at their outer ends outwardly from said elongated openings, thirdly in bending the screen-body downwardly on the horizon- 

